West Bay Seashore renovations nearing completion | Regional Information

TRAVERSE Metropolis — A Connecticut resort administration group is nearing completion of a two-calendar year-lengthy, $10 million renovation at the West Bay Seashore Resort.

The resort is in the procedure of having signage mounted to improve its identify to the Delamar Traverse Town with amped-up employees, a renovated wing of the hotel, and an upscale restaurant with waterfront views in area of what applied to be a nightclub.

The hotel is primarily an H shape with 45 rooms on the west aspect and 132 rooms on the east side. The vacation resort redid its loos on the aspect that faces the Grand Traverse Bay with balcony views. It then took 12 visitor rooms and transformed them to six extremely-lux suites. That lessened the facility’s capacity from 179 to 173 rooms.

From there the administration team attacked the foyer. Earlier there was no way to see the foyer until finally company went down a hallway. A meeting area was suitable in entrance of the water, which was taken out and changed with a “lower lounge.”

“Basically, as you’re walking in, you have that perception of arrival as you walk into the lobby of your examine in desk to your still left,” explained Mike Scandariato, Basic Supervisor of the hotel. “If you appear to your ideal, you have a extremely inviting decreased lobby, at the fireplace and the panoramic check out of the West Bay.”

A former nightclub is being converted into a waterfront cafe termed “Artisan Waterfront Cafe & Tavern.” Delamar operates Artisan dining places at 3 motels in Connecticut and a person in Vermont.

Scandariato mentioned Delamar typically features high-quality eating with its lodge group, so introducing an Artisan restaurant at the site in Traverse City was a no-brainer.

He named the Artisan a “game changer” for how locals can utilize the Delamar hotel.

“We imagine that you know there is absolutely an prospect to have a waterfront and wonderful eating expertise Traverse Town,” Scandariato mentioned.

All the renovations necessary the lodge to bolster its team by 50 to 60 staff members for a ratio of virtually one employee for every single place. Which is what friends ought to be expecting in lodges that assert to be on the luxurious end, he claimed.

Scandariato said it is significant for the lodge to market to teams like bachelorette events and bachelor parties, but also a further industry he feels is not totally tapped into — sophisticated partners. He thinks that’s for the reason that some folks may well want to avoid crowds through the Countrywide Cherry Festival, or might selected Traverse Town as an alternative of Mackinac Island if they see it as far more of luxury vacation spot.

“The total marketing and advertising approach behind the Delamar brand name is to perhaps talk to ‘Come see Traverse Town via the eyes of Delamar occur see the luxurious that you did not know existed in Traverse Metropolis,’” Scandariato stated.

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